Texture process in Zbrush 3.5.xx (Beginner)

[tez]

Hello everyone.

Here is a short video showing the basics of Zbrush 3.5 texture process, which explains the difference between Polypainting, texture maps, texture map locations, and the process to produce a texture map for exporting.

This video is aimed at new users to Zbrush, or anyone that wishes to watch anyway. There are two versions. One is slightly downgraded quality for Youtube streaming, while the other is at full HD quality.

I dont normaly try to produce video training on weekends, as kids are home from school, however it gives you a small taster of the quality of my future videos.

Download link(100mb): http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ktyyenngzzl
Youtube link part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ambVg1WxFWU
Youtube Link part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWbZWzruO7w

texture process.jpg

[calum5ZB]

Hi ,thanks for the vid but when I try to download load it drops too low on the transfer rate..like 10kbs ..2 hours.Do you have another link?If not I'll try again later.Would like to see this,cheers cal

[tez]

Hello Calum.

Its the weekend so I guess its going to be slower, my connection is generaly poor anyway. Link 1 for Youtube is up, and link two is being prepaired by Youtube. Press HD on Youtube for a better view.

Stick with the download link, it should speed up, if not try later on.

[manzarek123]

Thank you so much! for this vid, very very helpful! and very good explained :tu:

[hyper1]

tez,
Thanks, bud, for taking the time. Basic stuff, but even this will save me moments of frustration :D . This is just the sort of things I hinted at to Pixologic upon releasing 3.5. I'm looking forward to your 2nd half.
Cheers,
Gary

[Mike Rhodes]

Thanks for the video.

[SpiritDreamer]

Hi tez...Just wanted to thank you for the great demo tutorial..really helped me to understand what's going on in the texturing process.:)
Great the way you zoom large into the menu's that your selecting things from, and the speed at which you do it, is slow enough to give me a chance to absorb what your saying and demonstrating..
Anyway, I want to say that you have a nice way of teaching:tu: , and i'm really looking forward to learning more from you..:)
Glenn

[FrankT]

Hi Tez, thanks for taking the time to do this, will come in very handy!
Only problem is the RAR file on mediafire is broken, there is a CRC error and it won't unzip or unrar :cry:

Frank

[Mike Rhodes]

Frank: the file un-rar'ed just fine on my Mac, used UnRarX.

Maybe re-downloading it would help.

Tez: great tute! Now when zb 3.5 comes out on the Orphaned System, I'll know what to expect.

[FrankT]

I think I've found the problem - Mediafire keeps cutting the download short. I'll keep trying and see what I get :)

[AgentSmith]

Got it, the mediafire link worked well. Must be beginners luck.
(averaged 425kbps download speed)

Thank You!

AgentSmith

[triplej96]

Fantastic, just what I'm looking for beginner Zbrush tuts. As I just got Zbrush 3.5. I really appreciate and hope to see more!

-Josh

[Neosaga]

just amazing!!!!

[zber2]

Thanks a lot for the tutorial Tez. Much appreciated. Cheers.

[Nattawat_OBBI]

Thank You! :tu:

[AVTPro]

Thanks. Downloading now.

[bicc39]

First and foremost, many thanks for this, very informative.
Pleasure listening to you on the video (unlike some others).
Your voice, thankfully did not put me to sleep.
Also, pleasure listening to children in background.

One of Alex Alvarez's training dvds (Gnomon) had a phone
ringing in background. Rang, and rang, and rang.
Had sent him an email and asked who was calling never came back.

Had visions of you speaking and looking with daggers at kids.

Regard to them, made the videos better.

Best of luck with these, unlike some others you know what you
are talking about and it shows

[calum5ZB]

Hey mate,thanks !I finally got my copy downloaded and have just watched .You cleared up the texture pallete(s) confusion for me perfectly .I found your video very easy to understand and the recap was a great point also.I now know I can deal with multi textures on subtools and how the new texture pallette works along with the old one.Really appreciate the time you donated to us .

cal

[dc2r]

great vids! thanks!

[wenna]

Thanks sooo much! This is exactly what I needed!!

wenna

[lwguy]

I already knew most of this since I've been texturing in Zbrush for a few years now, but thank you very much all the same. I'm a tutorial junkie and this is done very well. :)

[adampof]

thanks man

[ByteDreams]

very useful tutorial. it makes the process much easier to understand for a beginner like me. i look forward to seeing more from you.

[Cubic]

You should charge money for this!

[jimiclay]

Is it me or is the link dead? thanks I press on the download link but there's nothing there.

[tez]

First I like to thank everyone for their comments and support, realy appreciate it.

Regarding the link it would apear that Mediafire is down. I will check again in a hour, and if the link still dont work im going to move all my files to a more reliable service.

Any recomendations for file hoasting service would be thankfull.

[ZikO]

Hello everyone and hello TEZ =),

Simply speaking, thank you for that. Tutorials like this one are brilliant for me. I am total beginner and ZBrush does not seem to be easy for me. However, things become much easier when someone shows "how to do that" and I hope you will have time to make more tutorials =). I found this one very good, clear and understandable.

Thanks

[YouZC]

I'm using the new Zbrush and am having problems simply applying an image texture on a surface. I have the fast shader applied and my image loaded up above it, but I only see the Fast Shader. Is there a viewing texture button I need to press or did I do something wrong. If anyone could help. Thanks

[tez]

I'm using the new Zbrush and am having problems simply applying an image texture on a surface. I have the fast shader applied and my image loaded up above it, but I only see the Fast Shader. Is there a viewing texture button I need to press or did I do something wrong. If anyone could help. Thanks
You have loaded the texture in the correct place, but you need to 1: have the correct subtool sellected, and 2: select the texture from the right texture menu as shown in picture below.

here zb.jpg

[YouZC]

You also helped me on YouTube email, so I want to thank you 2xs here! Excellent tutorials! Oh and I just clicked on the download link of your first post and got an error message unzipping. Maybe its just me, would you mind reuploading or sending it to me?

[tez]

You also helped me on YouTube email, so I want to thank you 2xs here! Excellent tutorials! Oh and I just clicked on the download link of your first post and got an error message unzipping. Maybe its just me, would you mind reuploading or sending it to me?
Hello. I have just download it, and extracted the movie fine, so it must be getting corrupt during your download. You may want to try again.

[StephFoster]

Awesome ! Thanks a load, you make it all so easy !
:D

[HarleyMunsie]

Great tutorial Tez. I was kind of hoping when you started talking about UVs that you would show how to import UVs that have been done in maya or another program thou.

[tez]

Great tutorial Tez. I was kind of hoping when you started talking about UVs that you would show how to import UVs that have been done in maya or another program thou.
That could be arranged in a video. I like to keep to a single topic as to not over load infomation in a single video like this.

Thanks to eveyrone that has commented.

[tez]

Iv done a UV pipline video tutorial for Zbrush, on how to work between external applications with Uvmapping. Im making a new dedicated thread in which il post the link here also.;)

[HarleyMunsie]

That's awesome to hear Tez, importing UVs to zbrush is something I've always had troubles with and is also the cause of holding up the project I'm currently working on right now. I look forward to that link good sir :)